The first "Slit" is the deepest: The secret to a hollow heart

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 221-223

  Helenius, Iiro Taneli ^a   Beitel, Greg J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR; SLIT PROTEIN; UVOMORULIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; BLAST CELL; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SHAPE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM; HEART DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HEART; HUMANS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGANOGENESIS; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 48249135713     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200806186     Document Type: Note

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